World Health Day
The World Health Day is celebrated by the people all across the world every year on 7th
of April under the leadership of World Health Organization to draw the
mass people attention towards the importance of global health. World
Health Assembly was held first time in the year 1948 in Geneva by the
WHO where it was decided to celebrate the World Health Day annually on 7th
of April. It was first celebrated worldwide in the year 1950 as the
World Health Day. Varieties of events related to the particular theme
are organized on the international and national level by the WHO.
It
is an annual event being celebrated for years to raise the common
public awareness towards the health issues and concerns. A particular
theme is chosen to run the celebration and take care of the health for
whole year. Global Polio Eradication was also one of the special themes
of the year 1995 of world health day. From then, most of the countries
have become free of this fatal disease whereas in other parts of the
world its awareness level has increased.
World Health Day targets
all the health issues on global basis for which several programs are
organized yearly by the WHO and other related health organizations at
various places like schools, colleges and other crowd places. It is
celebrated to remember the establishment of the World health
Organization as well as draw the attention of people towards the major
health issues in the world. WHO is a vast health organization working
under UN for addressing the health issues on a global basis. Since its
establishment it has addressed serious health issues including
chickenpox, polio, smallpox, TB, leprosy and etc from various developing
countries. It has played a significant role aiming to make the world a
healthy world. It has all the statistics about global health reports.
How World Health Day is Celebrated
World
Health Day is celebrated worldwide by the government, non-government,
NGOs including various health organizations at many places by organizing
programmes relating to the public health issues and awareness.
Participated organizations highlight their activities and supports
through the media reports by means of press releases, news and etc.
Health authorities from different country take part in the celebration
with their pledges in order to support on the health issues worldwide.
Varieties
of activities are done in the conference of health workers to encourage
people to maintain their health in the presence of media coverage.
Debates on the related topics, art exhibitions, essay writing,
competitions and award ceremony are organized to fulfill the aim of
world health day.
Why World Health Day is Celebrated
World
Health Day celebration focuses on increasing the life expectancy by
adding good health to the lives of people and promoting healthier living
habits. Youths of the new era are also targeted by this event to
prevent and make them healthy to make the world healthy and free from
AIDS and HIV.
Disease spreading vectors like mosquitoes (malaria,
dengue fever, filaria, chikungunya, yellow fever and etc), ticks, bugs,
sand flies, snails and etc are also spotlighted by the WHO to make the
world free from a wide range of diseases caused by parasites and
pathogens. It provides better prevention and cure from the vector-borne
diseases spread by vectors and travelers from one country to other. WHO
supports various health authorities on global basis to make their own
efforts for the public health problems to enhance better life without
any diseases.
Some of the objectives of why it is being celebrated yearly are listed below:
- To increase the public awareness of various causes and prevention of high blood pressure.
- To provide detail knowledge of getting prevented from various diseases and their complications.
- To encourage most vulnerable group of people to frequently check their blood pressure and follow medications from the professionals.
- To promote self care among people.
- To motivate the worldwide health authorities to make their own efforts in creating the healthy environments in their country.
- To protect families living in the disease vulnerable areas.
- To teach travelers and send them a messages about how to get protected from the vector-borne diseases while travelling.
Themes:
The theme of World Health Day 2016 was “Diabetes:Scale up prevention, strengthen care, and enhance surveillance”.
The theme of World Health Day 2017 is “Depression: Let’s talk”.
